Harmanpreet Kaur and Nicola Carey led the team to victoryImage Credit source: PTI
Reigning champions Mumbai Indians (MI) have continued their success in the new season of the Women's Premier League (WPL). After facing defeat on the last ball in their very first match of WPL 2026, Mumbai Indians have made an excellent comeback and registered their second consecutive win. On the basis of captain Harmanpreet Kaur's excellent half-century innings, Mumbai defeated Gujarat Giants (GG) by 7 wickets in its third match. Captain Kaur scored more than 70 runs for the second consecutive match. With this, Gujarat has faced its first defeat.
gujarat giants In this match played at DY Patil Stadium on 13 January, he batted first and once again scored a tremendous score. Gujarat, which had scored more than 200 runs in both the previous matches, scored 192 runs this time. This time no batsman could play a big innings and no half-century was scored but almost every batsman made small but fast scores. Beth Mooney, Kanika Ahuja and captain Ashley Gardner had reached 97 runs in the first 10 overs.
But after this, the team could add only 36 runs in the next 6 overs and this was the reason why the team could not cross 200 this time. This happened because debutant batsman Ayushi Soni struggled to score runs and was retired after scoring 11 runs in 14 balls, which was a first in WPL history. Gujarat benefited from this and scored 56 runs in the last 4 overs on the strength of Bharti Phoolmali's attack. Apart from him, Georgia Wareham also played a strong innings.
Mumbai's start was not very good and both the openers returned to the pavilion after scoring only 37 runs in 5 overs. But from here Amanjot Kaur and Captain Kaur together took charge. Together they made a stormy partnership of 72 runs in about 44 balls. Young all-rounder Amanjot (40) was more aggressive in this. But after his dismissal, Harmanpreet changed her attitude a bit and started attacking. In this he got good support from Nicola Carey.
Australian all-rounder Carey, who has been batting well since the first match of this season, turned the match towards Mumbai by hitting 4 fours in a single over. From here, both of them just kept scoring boundaries and finally the team achieved the target in 19.2 overs. There was an unbeaten partnership of 84 runs for the fourth wicket between Carey and Kaur. Harmanpreet returned unbeaten after scoring 71 runs in 43 balls (7 fours, 2 sixes) and Carey returned unbeaten after scoring 38 runs in 23 balls.
